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HERO Center

The Capital Investment package passed by the Minnesota House of Representatives early Friday morning includes $1.4 million for the Cottage Grove Health and Emergency Response Occupations (HERO) Center – a joint project with Inver Hills Community College that will offer specialized police, fire and paramedic training. The HERO Center will be built next to Cottage …

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Spring Playoff Seeding, Brackets Announced

KDWA’s Nick Tuckner has your first look at 2014 Spring Playoff Brackets, and Seeding for the Hastings and Prescott Softball Teams, and the Prescott Baseball Team. The Hastings Baseball Team will not seed until Wednesday morning, with their opening game already on Thursday. Stay tuned throughout Thursday for more on Raider Baseball. Click here for …

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Busy Spring Continues For Wolfpack AD

It’s been a very busy Spring Sports Season at Park High School in Cottage Grove, and Activities Director Phil Kuemmel joined KDWA Sports on Tuesday for a Wolfpack Update. This week, we talked about some of the new coaches hired in both Gymnastics, and Dance Team. Click here for audio        

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Click It or Ticket Campaign

Over the weekend the Prescott Police Department was busy with an increased number of speeding tickets, with some of them being for 20 mph over the speed limit. Prescott Police Chief, Gary Krutke, mentions that the Click It or Ticket Campaign will be starting on May 19th and going through June 1st. Krutke with the …

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Artists Under The Bridge

The Hastings Prescott Area Arts Council, ArtSpace, and City of Hastings with the support of the St. Paul Foundation, have designed an online survey that will tell whether or not artists would live in the Hastings area if affordable living and work space was available. The survey will be available online from May 28th to …

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Raider Softball Earns #2, Playoffs Open Wednesday

Seeding was announced on Monday afternoon, and the Hastings Softball Team is ranked #2 in the Section 1AAA playoffs, which will begin on Wednesday, at Hastings High School. After a 15-4 regular season, the Raiders will host the winner of Rochester Century and Austin, who will play in Hastings at 3:30pm. The Raiders will play …

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Cardinal Baseball Set For Two Huge Tests

Even though seeding has been completed, with Prescott earning the #2 Seed just behind #1 Ellsworth in the upcoming Regional Playoffs, the Cardinals have two huge games remaining this week, with both Osceola and Ellsworth, wrapping up the regular season. Head Coach Jeff Ryan has more on the last week of action, with Prescott now …

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Miss Minnesota People’s Choice Award

The Miss Minnestoa Competition is doing something different this year when it comes to voting on the contestants. This year people can go online to vote for their favorite contestant to recieve a “People’s Choice Award”. You can vote from now through June 12th. Ms. St. Paul and Hastings Native, Rachel Latuff, explains the new …

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Hastings City Council Meeting on May 19th

The Hastings City Council will be meeting in regular session on Monday on May 19th at 7pm, in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Hastings Mayor, Paul Hicks, goes over the night’s agenda. Click here for audio        

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Update: Early Morning Assault at Perkins

Here is an update to the Early Morning Assault story, reported by KDWA, last week. On Friday, May 9th, there was an altercation outside of Perkins Restaurant in Hastings, early in the morning. There were two individuals outside the restaurant who seemed to be fighting. By the time police arrived, Bradley Sanders, age 32 of …

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